LACE #3: Materialising Touch
hospitality, integration, & the interstitial
LACE Symposium for Dance and Other Contemporary Practices at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
July 14-18, 2025 LACE Symposium July 21-25, 2025 LACE Extended
Welcome to the Official Website of LACE Symposium & LACE Extended.
UPDATE!
The OPEN CALL for Participation at LACE Extended remains open until the start of the week! We encourage you to apply as early as possible!
UPDATE!
This year, for the first time ever, we’re opening the doors to our studio to everyone interested in meeting the artists contributing to the LACE symposium! Come join us in this series of open level classes, meet the artists and the team behind the event, and explore the world of dance practice that is being developed in the context of artistic research! No previous academic or research experience necessary.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 9.30—11.00AM
see OPEN DOORS for details
Like the morning classes, the Opening Ceremony is accessible to everyone! You do not need to attend the whole symposium to join us at the Opening Night!
The evening opens a week of diving into exploring integration as a complex process. What would it mean to consider integration an essential, creative activity and a central aspect of experience? This evening will tap right into practicing, questioning, and reflecting on what it might mean “to integrate”. If you enjoy thinking, imagining, sensing, dancing and reflecting – all at once, come join us!
Hosts of the Opening
Deirdre Morris, pavleheidler, Sylvia Scheidl, with Rachel Tess, Frédéric Gies, and Michal Turinski
UPDATE!
The LACE Symposium PODCAST is now available via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Just search for LACE Symposium! Please like our episodes and subscribe to our podcast. Your interacting with our content will help make the podcast more visible and so more easily accessible to others! Thank you!
LACE Symposium is a symposium for dance and other contemporary practices committed to bringing together practitioners working at the intersection of art, academia, and activism to examine the challenge of place, the restriction of its specificity, and to explore strategies for successful interpersonal cross-cultural contact-making in the age of gentrification, polarisation, and segregation.
We create opportunities for artists and researchers working with body-based practices across genres to come together in practice-based exchange. What this means is that we don’t simply invite artists researchers to describe their work or report on their discoveries. At LACE Symposium artists researchers engage the public in an experiment, and disseminate their observation through action.
LACE Extended takes place the week after the Symposium, offering the participants of the Symposium the opportunity to extend the amount of time spent in-relation to presenters and their practices, and other participants of the event.
(link to the ImPulsTanz website)
read about LACE Symposium:
“From strangers, to acquaintances, to companions? The LACE Symposium at the ImPulsTanz festival is not just an academic meeting. In an age of loneliness and physical disconnection lies an urgent emphasis on sensory perception, new movements and questions about how we can truly be together.”
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